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Jan 31, 2021
✔︎ The dominant narrative about white people is gradually changing, as working-class whites are seen as a problem demographic, beset by declining life expectancy, dead-end jobs, rural backwardness, drug addiction, family breakdown and obesity. They are no longer able to claim to belong to the superior race, but are portrayed as victims rather than predators, clinging to "guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigration sentiment or anti-trade sentiment," as Barack Obama put it back in 2008, to give meaning to their empty, desolate lives.